Lehigh Valley business leaders like to tout the region's status as an up-and-coming economy. A new report suggests that when it comes to growth, it still has a way to go. With $1 billion in new construction in the works, the Neighborhood Improvement Zone-fueled construction boom in downtown Allentown might seem massive, but it apparently pales in comparison to the pace of growth in, say, Istanbul or Dubai. The Allentown metro area — which includes Lehigh, Carbon and Northampton counties and Warren County, N.J. — ranked 272nd for economic growth on a list of the world's 300 largest metro-region economies for 2013-14, in the Brookings Institution's Global Metro...

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Lehigh Valley business leaders like to tout the region's status as an up-and-coming economy.
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With $1 billion in new construction in the works, the Neighborhood Improvement...

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